Inkjet printing of viable mammalian cells
The purpose of this study was to explore the use of a commercial thermal printer to deposit Chinese Hamster Ovary (CHO) and embryonic motoneuron cells into pre-defined patterns. These experiments were...
View ArticleViability and Electrophysiology of Neural Cell Structures generated by the...
Complex cellular patterns and structures were created by automated and direct inkjet printing of primary embryonic hippocampal and cortical neurons. Immunostaining analysis and whole-cell patch-clamp...
View ArticleElectrophysiological characterization of embryonic hippocampal neurons...
Rat embryonic hippocampal neurons were cultured in (1) 3D collagen hydrogels as 'entrapped' evenly distributed cells, (2) at the interface of two collagen layers (sandwich model), and (3) on the...
View ArticleHuman microvasculature fabrication using thermal inkjet printing technology
The current tissue engineering paradigm is that successfully engineered thick tissues must include vasculature. As biological approaches alone, such as VEGF, have fallen short of their promises, one...
View ArticleInkjet Printing for High Throughput Cell Patterning
The adaptation of inkjet printing technology to the complex fields of tissue engineering and biomaterial development presents the potential to increase progress in these emerging technologies through...
View ArticleApplication of Inkjet Printing to Tissue Engineering
ecent advances in organ printing technology for applications relating to medical interventions and organ replacement are described. Organ printing refers to the placement of various cell types into a...
View ArticleLoading dependent swelling and release properties of novel biodegradable,...
A novel degradable, elastic, anionic, and linear polyurethane was synthesized from hexamethylene diisocyanate, polycaprolactone diol, and a bicine chain extender. The chemical structure, mechanical...
View ArticleSynthesis and characterization of biodegradable elastomeric polyurethane...
Biodegradable polyurethanes (PUs) were synthesized from methylene di-p-phenyl-diisocyanate (MDI), polycaprolactone diol (PCL-diol) and N,N-bis (2-hydorxyethyl)-2-aminoethane-sulfonic acid (BES),...
View ArticleFabrication and characterization of bio-engineered cardiac pseudo tissues
We report to fabricate functional three-dimensional (3D) tissue constructs by using an inkjet based bio-prototyping method. With the use of the modified inkjet printers, contractile cardiac hybrids...
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